Each addon component needs a <name/> tag, giving the addon a human-readable name.

Note

Don't put the application name you are extending in the <name/> - so you want to use Bookmarks rather than GEdit Bookmarks

<summary/>

The <summary/> tag follows the basic structure of a <summary/> as described in the specification. It is a required tag for an addon component.

Some useful hints for finding a good addon summary:

Don't put the application name you are extending in the <summary/> - so you want to use Easy document navigation with bookmarks rather than Easy document navigation with bookmarks in GEdit.

Don't use long or short descriptions. Ideally <summmary/> should be less than 101 and more than 8.

<url/>

It is recommended to include links of types homepage and bugtracker. You can omit the <url/> if it's the same as the upstream project.

Links of type homepage should be a link to the upstream homepage for the addon.

Links of type bugtracker should be a link to the upstream bugtracker.

Note

It is highly recommended to be a link to the upstream bugzilla with filed component and product.

Warning

It might be necessary to escape URLs. For example replacing of & with &amp;.

For other possible values, take a look at the tag's description in <url/>.

<metadata_license/>

The <metadata_license/> tag is indicating the content license that you are releasing the one metadata file as. This is not typically the same as the project license. By ommitting the license value would probably mean your data would not be incorporated into the distribution metadata. Permissible license codes include: